Monthly Archives: May 2016

Some lazy students just don’t turn up for their exams. Othersphone their school and claim to have left a bomb in the exam room, or something like that. Exams are cancelled for the day and everyone goes home. The exams … Continue reading →

Share this:

Like this:

I have a student called Chelsea, and I have been thinking how Chelsea could benefit from a simple change of name. Chelsea should be called Winchelsea from now on. Chelsea has exams, and receives a psychological boost every time someone … Continue reading →

Share this:

Like this:

We have poetry on the underground which many people enjoy. Suggest we have pictures on the underground which tell a story in physics, like how a nuclear power station works, or the physics of geostationary orbit.

Share this:

Like this:

Combined science is taught in schools because either: There are not enough science teachers to teach separate sciences Students are not good enough at science to study separate, and harder, science subjects. Combined science is a copout. Anyone studying combined … Continue reading →

Share this:

Like this:

It is too hot in the summer for exams. We should all be jumping for joy on the beach than locked up studying or teaching. Exams should all be in November, when it is raining and we are inside out … Continue reading →

Share this:

Like this:

Some students are so brilliant, but unconventional, like Galois, a French teenage prodigy who played a big part in the development of group theory before he was shot dead in a duel at 19. I heard yesterday about a student … Continue reading →